Word: brakely
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...race in nuclear weapons. Such negotiations cannot be easy, but the effort has to be made. Both in the Soviet Union and in the U.S. the influence of military thinking seems to be in the ascendancy, if for different reasons. Both capitals must find a way to put a brake on the demands of their respective military establishments for the commitment of increasingly massive resources for military purposes...
Empire's security chief snips the brake line on Christian's car and later takes him on a terror ride in an elevator...
...Government action when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered it to recall 112,000 of its 1979 Chevrolet Chevettes for exceeding maximum federal standards for carbon-monoxide emissions GM said separately that it is calling back 367,700 vehicles, produced mainly during the 1983 model year, to correct defects involving brakes. In addition, a federal judge released confidential company documents reportedly indicating that GM knew that its 1980 X-model autos had brake problems before it started producing the cars. The material was assembled in connection with a Justice Department suit demanding that GM recall all 1.1 million...
...federal rules. It has reviewed 119 regulations already on the books, killing or revising 76 of them and proposing changes in 27 more. Of 6,700 proposed new rules, it has revised or rejected about one in nine. Its review process can take months or years, effectively putting a brake on good as well as unnecessary changes...
...suit, the Justice Department contends that GM knew about the brake problem in 1978, when the car was in the prototype stage, and that although GM changed the brakes in subsequent models, it made no attempt to warn owners during the 1980 model year. In addition, the suit charges that GM gave "false and misleading responses in at least 18 instances" after N.H.T.S.A. began its Investigation. Examples: GM said it received fewer complaints than it actually had, falsely claimed that it made no written analysis of the problem and denied that it had changed the brake design...